Saudi Arabia, sentence 2
From Wikipedia, «Saudi Arabia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2150000 km2, making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the twelfth-largest in the world.
Who acts: East · What happens: locate, cover, have, make · To what, where: centre, bulk, land area, area
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saudi Arabia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 covers | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 centre | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 centre | det |
| 4 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Located | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 7 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 East | compound |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 centre | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covers | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 covers | nsubj |
| 11 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bulk | det |
| 13 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covers | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Peninsula | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peninsula | det |
| 16 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Peninsula | amod |
| 17 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bulk | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 covers | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 area | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 area | compound |
| 22 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 2150000 | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 2150000 | advmod |
| 25 | 2150000 | 2150000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 area | nmod |
| 26 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 2150000 | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 making | punct |
| 28 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 covers | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 making | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 country | det |
| 31 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 country | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 largest | punct |
| 33 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 country | amod |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 making | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Asia | case |
| 36 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 country | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 largest | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 largest | det |
| 39 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 country | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 East | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 East | det |
| 42 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 East | compound |
| 43 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 largest | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 largest | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 largest | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 largest | det |
| 47 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 largest | amod |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 largest | punct |
| 49 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 largest | conj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 world | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 world | det |
| 52 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 largest | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | East not said here | the centre of the Middle East | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | East | the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bulk=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | present | East not said here | a land area of 2150000 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | East not said here | area | the fifth largest country in Asia xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Saudi Arabia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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